deepfakes
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Australia Fighting Explicit Deepfakes: 5 Tech Things to Know in Australia Today
From new laws to fight explicit deepfakes to a Club Penguin-themed data breach, here are five things headlining tech news in Australia today.
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First Deepfake Address from the Queen of England Makes Its Debut on British TV
It’s “a powerful reminder that we can no longer trust our own eyes,” a representative for the UK broadcaster Channel 4 told the Guardian. Each year, the BBC broadcasts a special Christmas address to the nation from Queen Elizabeth II. But it’s 2020 and that means everything has to be extra weird. So, Channel 4…
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Please Enjoy This Deepfake of Gladys Berejiklian Singing to ‘I’m Just A Girl in Love’
A deepfake video of New South Wales Premier Berejiklian is doing the rounds on Twitter. In the video she is singing and dancing to the ‘I’m Just A Girl in Love’ theme song from Crazy Ex Girlfriend. And god dammit, it’s pretty funny. Before we dive in, it’s worth noting that deepfakes are often bad,…
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Microsoft’s Made a Tool to Spot Deepfakes
Anyone who was around in the 80s will be pretty surprised that Bill Gates and Microsoft are turning out to be the good guys of 2020, but here we are. MS has created a new tool called Video Authenticator to identify deepfakes (those spooky videos that all-too-realistically change the face of someone in a video…